Here's a switch for you'se guys and gals...
Bet you forgot that I use to shoot some precision guns...other than the Winchesters and Flintlocks.

Rem 700 variant, the SPS Tactical. This is one of the few with a adjustable trigger. Currently set up with a Hunting scope ~ for game. I'm pretty bad about getting my scopes mounted properly. This one was about a 2 hr process to see how low I could go and still clear the bolt. My feelin' is if the bolt doesn't flip the cap...you're way to high....

I hunted for three years to find this one in .223...

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Nice looking rifle, do you know what the rate of twist is?

It has the 1 in 9 rate of twist. That's why I had to have it....

My gun also is matched chambered...Don't know why it came that way...but I'm not arguing.

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In .308, that would make an OUTSTANDING Scout Rifle!

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I have one of those that I've been using for prairie dogs for the last year or so. Accuracy was dicey at first, but I shimmed it at the forend tip to add a few pounds of pressure at that point and it has worked fine ever since. Will hold 3/4" easily with ammo it likes, and that's plenty good enough to take a lot of p-dogs.

I have a 700 Police in .308 26" 1 in 12. Very accurate with Black Hills 168gr Matchking

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I have a 700 Police LTR in .308, which is the 20" fluted heavy barrel variant, Leupold Tactical 4.5x14x50mm scope, illuminated recticle. Amazingly accurate, with just about everything I feed it!! I have looking at the .223 SPS or LTR model for sometime now. Joe

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Wyo, what bullet weights are you using? Were the accuracy problems with varmint type bullets?

Try a Savage 10FP with a 1 in 10. I like heavy bullets. It shoots the 175gr. Sierra like a champ at 600 yards. It'll shoot the 190s too.

Most people I know no longer use 168s (except for 200 yard offhand) because the BC is so inferior to the newer bullets.

I load an equivalent to the G.I. M118 Long Range round using 175gr. Sierras and Vihta Vuori N150.

Here's my "flea flicker," so-named because it can almost literally flick a flea off a dog's butt at 100 yards.

Remington 700 in .308, 26" bull barrel, topped with a 6.5-20x50mm Burris Fullfield II scope with a range-calibrated stepped plex reticle, adjustable parallax from 50 to 500 yards. Quick-detachable rings with absolute return to zero. Pillar bedded Kevlar stock, barrel free-floated. Sighted in with 168-grain Sierra Match Kings, handloaded with Win. 748 powder and Win. primers to 2650 fps mv on a Dillon 1050. Rifle was constructed in December, 1994. A real "AT&T" special.

Gotta love a really precision rifle. As Townsend Whelen said, "Only accurate rifles are interesting."

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I was using mostly 55 gr. V-Max's and 55 gr. Ballistic Tips, but also 69 gr. Sierras and 75 gr. Hornady HP's just to see if it was a problem with particular weights. It didn't shoot anything well. Most groups with all bullets were in the 4-5" range. It was a bedding problem and once I got some upward pressure on the barrel at the forend tip it settled right in. I have several Remingtons and never had a problem like that before. I used it today and was hitting fine out to about 250 yds. Wind was gusting to about 30 mph,though, and that was making things really tough beyond that.

As far as the .223 goes, I will stick with the AR platform. I have a Bushmaster lower with a Jard trigger and a Rock River upper with a 24" Wilson Barrel with a 1:8 twist. Using 69 gr Black Hills I get 1/2" to 3/4" groups at 100 yds and 2" groups at 250 yds. I think that the rifle is capable of better but that is as good as I can do

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